{"product_id":"9781840916805","title":"Design Museum: Fifty Modern Buildings That Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of two new titles in the Design Museum Fifty series published in conjunction with London's prestigious Design Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history of modern architecture is as diverse as it is beautiful, varying wildly from region to region and era to era. Here Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum, explores 50 of the most significant and striking buildings in the world, from the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye to the eye-catching flair of Beijing's CCTV Headquarters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents include:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVilla Savoye, Poissy\u003cbr\u003eRockefeller Center, New York\u003cbr\u003eEames House, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eMontreal Biosphere, Montreal\u003cbr\u003ePompidou Centre, Paris\u003cbr\u003eGuggenheim Museum, Bilbao\u003cbr\u003eBeijing Olympic Stadium, Beijing\u003cbr\u003eSelfridges, Birmingham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e...and many more.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeyan Sudjic (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeyan Sudjic is a writer, broadcaster and director of the Design Museum. Before his post at the Design Museum, he was the design and architecture critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Observer,\u003c\/i\u003e the Dean of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University and co-chair of the Urban Age Advisory Board. He is a leading figure in the field of architectural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Design Museum (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, entertain and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to fashion, and architecture to graphics. It is working to place design at the center of contemporary culture and demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octopus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057740071152,"sku":"9781840916805","price":18.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781840916805_p0.jpg?v=1763741984","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781840916805","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}